CCRI Knights Baseball

Coaching Staff

Kevin Rix- Head Coach

After seven seasons as Assistant Coach and Associate Head Coach, Rix begins his first
season as Head Coach in 2018. He works with the Knights’ pitchers and assists in other
areas.

Rix previously served as the head coach of the Warwick Connie Mack Baseball League
and as assistant coach of the Warwick team in the Rhode Island Amateur League. In
2000, he was the assistant coach of the Pilgrim High School freshmen baseball team.
He also has served as an assistant coach for Warwick Veterans High School.

Rix lives in Warwick. He has a son, Kevin, and a daughter, Amanda.

Ray Tessaglia- Assistant Coach

Tessaglia has numerous years of coaching experience at the amateur and Division I
levels. Seventeen years ago, he reunited with head coach Ken Hopkins, with whom he
teamed up to lead women’s basketball and men’s baseball programs for many years at
Rhode Island College.

Tessaglia is the former head coach of the men’s baseball team and former associate
head coach of the women’s basketball team at Rhode Island College. His overall knowledge
of the game and teaching skills, coupled with his working familiarity with Hopkins,
benefit the CCRI baseball program.

Tessaglia lives in Providence with his wife Janice and daughter Sydney.

Joe Hopkins - Assistant Coach '81

Hopkins is a former Knights baseball player from 1979-81. He joins his brother Ken
for his first year on the coaching staff for the baseball team. During his player
time at CCRI, Hopkins earned first team and second team All-Region honors at catcher.

He has numerous years of coaching experience coaching in both basketball and baseball.
From 2012 to 2016, Hopkins coached in the George Donnelly Sunset League in Newport.
Previously he served as the basketball coach at Western Hills Middle School and for
the Cranston High School West freshman boys’ team. Hopkins was a patrolman for the
Cranston Police Department from 1997 to 2009. In 2009, he was promoted to detective
in the department, a position he holds today. Before joining the Cranston Police Department
he owned JMH Painting Company from 1987-97.

Hopkins is a graduate of Roger Williams University with bachelor's degree in criminal
justice. He also holds an associate degree in criminal justice and liberal arts from
CCRI. He is a member of the Johnston High School athletics Hall of Fame. He lives
in Cranston.

Peter Olson - Assistant Coach

Olson joins the CCRI coaching staff in 2017-2018. Olson works as a Behavior Specialist
Supervisor at Lifespan, working with young adults in high school programs throughout
the Rhode Island area.

Olson also has numerous coaching experiences throughout Rhode Island. Most recently,
he was the Varsity Head Coach at Wheeler School based out of Providence Rhode Island.
Before that, he was the Head coach of Junior Varsity at Bishop Hendricken. Olson worked
for years at the RBI Baseball Academy, coaching youth teams and offering individual
lessons to players. He did the same job at Upper Deck Baseball Academy from 2005-2008,
and returned in 2010 and is now presently employed there as well. He is also currently
employed at Providence Sports and Leadership, acting as the Manager of the RBU baseball
program and the head coach of the 16 and under College Prospect baseball team.

Alongside his plethora of baseball coaching experience, he brings a Bachelor of Science
degree in Justice Studies from Rhode Island College.